ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past




Ten Years Ago Wednesday May 23, 2001

It’s official. The new land on the south side of the village is now Woodland Park. The name was proposed by Erma Stamm, 301 West Lutz Road, and selected by Archbold Park Board, Tuesday, May 15.

Thirty-nine students are members of the 2001 PHS graduation class. They receive diplomas May 27 in the new gymnasium.

Headlines– Jason Rose Is Relay For Life Honorary Chairman…. Bob Jones Remembers Brother’s WWII Death

A ribbon-cutting was held for Gordon and Margaret Schumacher’s new business, Pennycrest Gift Shoppe, 1407 South Defiance Street, Friday, May 18.

A one-story brick house at 505 Stamm St., was sold at public auction Monday evening to Rod and Lisa Cheney for $158,000. It was owned by the Farmers & Merchants State Bank.

Fulton County departments have closed to move into the new administration building, 152 South Fulton Street, north of the courthouse.

Nancy Yackee, an employee of the Fulton County auditor office for many years, has been named county auditor.

Deaths– Vivian M. Barnes, 100, Wauseon; K. Lynne Giesige, 50, Archbold; Carla S. Patterson, 42, Liberal, Kan., Frank V. King, 82, West Unity; Dianna J. Weber, 57, Archbold

Don Secondine, gunsmith and silversmith at Sauder Village, stands at attention after firing the shot that started this year’s Tromp Through The Swamp 5K Race, Saturday. It was won by Steve Chapa, Liberty Center.

Headline– AHS Track Sends 18 To Regional Meet; Beck, Young Have Impressive Showings

Hope Nyce, a PHS sprinter, made it to the district semifinals in the 200-meter run, and was part of the 4×100 relay team. The team earned a trip to the finals and took eighth place.

Council is seeking bids for reconstruction of three parking lots in the village.

Jason Smith, Dillon, Colo., sells real estate in the Colorado playground of Summit County.

Twenty-Five Years Ago Wednesday, May 28, 1986

David Lersch, school superintendent, said it will take nearly $16,000 for the district to operate the Elmira school building.

Graduation day is Sunday. Archbold graduates 87; Pettisville, 28.

The Archbold water source is adequate to meet the projected needs of the village beyond 2020, according to a report from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

The report points out because much of Fulton County has a low ground-water potential for wells, “rural systems may be necessary to meet the needs of the rural residents and small communities without central water distribution systems. Archbold, Delta, and Wauseon systems should consider the sale of excess supply to the potential customers and they should take this additional need into consideration when expanding their supply and treatment systems.”

Deaths–Ilva Meck, 82, Archbold; Gilbert Dunning, 72, Archbold; Wilma Pomeranz, 86; Gretchen Tinsler, 16, Wauseon

Award winners in the high school industrial arts show: Jeff Leininger, Chris Wyse, Kelby Schmucker, Mark Stevens, Matt Baer, Todd Grieser, Brian Kammeyer, Doug Krieger, Brian Schweinhagen, Neil Klinger.

Top book readers at Pettisville elementary school in Brent Gnagey’s class are Derek Seiler, 3,445; Ann Richer, 3,312; Gina Carpenter, 3,005; Dereck Leatherman, 2,861; Mickey Weber, 2,245.

Earn Degrees–Mary E. Buehrer, Ohio Northern University; Lamont Yoder, Lourdes College.

Spectators are welcome and there is no admission charge at the annual Fulton County Humane Society cat show, June 7.

A large first place trophy returned home Saturday with the Archbold Area High School Jazz Band competition at Cedar Point.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor–Erie J. Sauder and assistants moved a number of log cabins to the historical village recently…. More entanglements are caused by vocal cords than by any other kind.

Scott Nafziger, a senior, received the John Phillip Sousa award.

Kelly Strickler pitched her fifth no-hitter to win the district softball championship.

Fifty Years Ago Wednesday, May 31, 1961

Archbold schools will start summer sessions next Monday and continue until Friday, July 1. Enrollment is the highest ever, said J.H. Spengler, superintendent. It is the fourth year of operation.

Another car safety check will be held Friday, June 2. It is sponsored by BLW Post 311 and Archbold Fire Department. Friday night 200 automobiles were carefully inspected.

McLaughlin Memorial Library has been closed since May 26 and will remain closed until June 14 for cleaning.

Archbold Manufacturing Company has made 60 organ tone cabinets for a Toledo firm: 16’x30’ and 29 inches high in fruitwood, walnut, and mahogany with three side grills.

A military address appears for Curtis Zaerr.

The water storage tower at Lugbill Bros., Inc., and Eckert Packing Co., has recently been repainted a bright silver.

Max, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith, appeared in the spring ballet of the Jordan School of Music, Butler University.

A. Donald Collins, pastor of Archbold Methodist Church, was the speaker at the Monday noon luncheon of Commercial Club.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor– Why worry about our image abroad. They don’t like us, but they are crazy about our money…. Want to be happy? Try being on the giving end of complimentary remarks and see what happens…. Liberty may be gained, but never recovered.– Rousseau, 1750…. Want a lot of free advice? Tell friends you have rheumatism or arthritic pains –and if you try every remedy they suggest, you still may have more misery…. Remember when everyone thought a mile-a-minute was a terrific speed?

Seventy-Five Years Ago Wednesday, May 20, 1936

Theo. J. Klaudt, pastor of St. John’s Reformed Church, will deliver the sermon at the baccalaureate service Sunday evening. Dusty Miller, nationally known humorist and entertainer, will deliver the commencement address.

Grace Schmucker and Orpha Frey spent Friday and Saturday in Elkhart, Ind. They attended the literary convention at Goshen College Sunday.

A.J. Vernier is the valedictorian of the graduating class of 1936 and Martha Jane Bourquin is salutatorian. Others on the honor roll are Naoma Fagley, Joan Ruffer, Clarence Rich, Kathryn Dimke, Robert Roedel, Sarabelle Aungst, Clela Lugbill, Robert Short.

W.G. Theobald and Walter Britsch have purchased L.W. Barger’s Variety Store and stock and are closing it out.

A party of hitchhikers from St. Louis, Mo., en route to Detroit, stopped at Sherwood recently. Among them was a woman with a baby only four weeks old.

The first mother-daughter banquet of the Lutheran Church was sponsored Tuesday evening by the Ursla Cotta Society. Nearly 90 women and girls attended.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, May 30, 1911

S.A Luthy, of Swan Creek Township, was struck by lightning last Saturday during an electrical storm.

He was standing near his big barn. Lightning struck a chicken coop 300 feet away and jumped to Luthy, striking him just below the calf of the right leg and going out his foot.

It put him to the ground and in a couple minutes his foot and lower leg was swollen. The lightning evidently was after one of the lightning rods on the big barn and thought S.A. was it.

It did not burn him, but crippled him for a time.

The McGuire bill providing for state building of public highways passed the house at Columbus, Thursday.

The ball game in Lohse’s field Sunday resulted in Wauseon defeating Archbold 12-9.

Two of the T&I men now boarding with sheriff Grandy at Wauseon tried to settle their troubles between themselves in jail. Gutherie, an ex-conductor, gave Fisher, an ex-ticket agent at Delta, an awful beating.

Dr. E.A. Murbach has so far recovered from a broken leg and is able to reach the office on crutches.

The automobile line from New York to Chicago was to begin operating May 21.

Whoever has my spray pump and shovel plow please return it to me.–D.J. Mockler–adv.

Friday, June 2, 1911

Waste paper, when baled, is worth $8 a ton and up. Archbold people will have a paper shipping day in the spring. If all go together, there may be a carload.

Dreamland Park, a $3,000,000 show, burned to the ground at Coney Island one day last week. Fifteen years ago an Archbold man, W.O. Taylor, had an interest in the largest amusement enterprise on the island at that time. It stood on the site of the burned Dreamland.

A drunken man and woman peddled needles from house to house in Swanton. The woman was sassy, insulting, and used bad language. They slept along the roadside at night.

After July 1 it will be unlawful to use saccharin. It is a substance 300 times sweeter than sugar and much cheaper. They say it disturbs digestion.

W.O. Taylor saved the money to start the first newspaper in Archbold while working in the Gotshall stave mill. It cost him his time and labor and one finger.

Beginning Sunday the T&I will sell round trip tickets from Archbold to Toledo for 90 cents.

One hundred and one miles an hour is the new automobile speed record set by Bob Burmen at the Indianapolis track, Monday. That is faster than man ever traveled before. If he came through Archbold that fast, what would become of our speed signs?

Death claimed 3,149 veterans of the Civil War in Ohio during the past year.



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